Description of Tool:

Google Forms is a great tool for using with your students' google accounts. Teachers can quickly and easily create formative assessments that can be taken at the beginning of a lesson as an entrance ticket, throughout a lesson to quickly gather feedback on progress, or at the end of a lesson at an exit ticket. Other advantages of using this tool include:

  • The ability to ask multiple question types

  • Forms can be set up to automatically require the user's google email and name when linked to school accounts

  • Can easily be embedded on websites or accessed via a link or QR code

  • Responses are organized in a google database in real-time

  • Responses can be set up to be self-checked using easy data formatting


Resources:

Creating a survey using google forms:The Basics


Create a Form Using Google Docs Forms

by Ron Ippolito



Using a Self-Grading Tool for with Google Forms

by Eric Curtis

* For more advanced users who have mastered this tool before the session



Group Work:

After reviewing the above resources individually, choose one of your group member's assessments to adapt using this platform. When considering which to adapt. think about the goals of the activity (what are the students learning, what skill/idea are you assessing, what will you do with the data from this activity once it is collected) and try to choose the one that best aligns with this particular tools. When you are done creating the lesson, post a link to it on the "further application" page & complete the formative assessment below.



Formative Feedback: